Degrees

Previous Position

Lecturer and Post-doctoral fellow in Sociology, Harvard University

Interests

My research focuses on the intersections of media, race and crime. Specifically, I investigate how the American news media influences audience members' racial attitudes and support for punitive criminal justice policy preferences.

Specialties

Social psychology; Race and ethnicity; Mass communication; Social control/crime/law/deviance; Public opinion; Research methods

Bobo, Lawrence D., Camille Z. Charles, Maria Krysan, and Alicia D. Simmons. 2012. "The Real Record on Racial Attitudes." Pp.28-83 in Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972 edited by P. V. Marsden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.